Dear lazy techno-suit “recruiter” creep,
I know how you conduct your business. Won’t call it “work,” because I’m sure that’s beneath you. I know that you get wind of a contract opening, find the keywords that your target is hoping to find, and plug those words into the search engines for Monster or Linkedin, or Indeed… then you fire off a form letter to all the names those search engines pull up. Never even bother to look at a single resume, do you?
No doubt, you’re very successful, never even DREAMED that the “Great Recession” was real or anything. All you have to do is run a search, fire out a few hundred emails a day, and wait for the “candidates” to respond. THAT’S when you start to weed out the chaff, huh?
Well you know what, bastard? The recession IS real, and there are thousands of people like me out there, DESPERATELY looking for a real job, HOPING that someone – ANYONE -- will notice that a highly-experienced, dedicated, seasoned IT person is available, ready at a moment’s notice to go to work, get back in the game they were tossed aside from, or get away from the under-employed nightmare they had to take to avoid losing home and family. And you, without even bothering to look, rattle our cages of misery.
Instead, ON THE REBOUND, you look at our resumes finally, and say to yourself, “Nah, he’d never get any interest from this manager.” And you toss those losers aside, never bothering to contact those worthless people any more… until they’re swept up in your next keyword search.
One day, some “loser” might just get fed up with this game. Get tired of thinking, “Yeah, I WOULD be perfect for this job,” getting his hopes up, sending in his resume and getting nothing but SILENCE in response. He might decide that it’s no longer worth playing by the rules you creeps have created. If he decides to visit some revenge on you, I won’t feel any sympathy for your side of this. I’d cheer. And you’d deserve it, for being too damn lazy to bother to check through the resumes before deciding who to send invitations to.
I can't express the anger I feel these days. I see well-heeled executives, happy with their secure, easy lives of telling everyone else what to do, how may hours to work, ruining the lives of families that aren't a HIGH and MIGHTY as they are. Taking THEIR 6-8 weeks of vacation any time they damn well feel like it, and grudging any of their underlings if they should want to take even ONE week of so-called allotted time.
I'm powerless to do anything about it. But if I did have the power... I'd use it as surely as those bastards do.
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